Records are meant to be broken. You can't control the weather. Two adages many were disheartened by at this year's UIL State Meet. In what is arguably the nation's top high school state meet, speed in abundance never disappoints. Raw, natural speed, poetic in its grace, brings the raucous crowd to its feet, celebrating the athletic prowess of a rare accomplishment: a state classification record. Unfortunately, when controllable speed meets uncontrollable wind, the mix is of

You've just competed at the UIL State Track & Field Meet. You're tired. Your teammates are tired. You've spent an entire year training, sweating, overcoming adversity in all types of weather conditions. (It is north Texas, where within a twenty-four span, it can go from snow to suntan lotion required.) So what's the best way to spend 42 seconds in a hotel? The Hotel Challenge! Take teenagers from various Texas high schools, occupy three floors of the Embassy Suites in Austin

Day 1 of the UIL State Track & Field meet is over, and while there's a ton of information to talk about (athletes who won two or more events, per se) let's talk about the records that fell - and the one that didn't. Class 1A pulled its weight in breaking records, considering the majority of its events take place on Day 2. Freshman Rylee Hennig of Aquilla and Gentrye Munden of Blum each jumped 5-04 to tie the existing mark set by Makinna Serrata of Tilden McMullen Co. in 2016